Amitabh Bachchan sells ICICI child future plan to Abhishek Bachchan

Amitabh Bachchan, who has been educating the aam aadmi about the importance of securing one’s family’s future through insurance plans, successfully sold such a plan to his son Abhishek Bachchan earlier today after Abhishek became a dad. The child plan, total value of which has not been disclosed, will make sure that the girl child of Abhishek and Aishwarya will grow up and become what she truly desires, ICICI sources claim.

“What if she wants to become a chess player or an astronaut?” Big B is supposed to have asked Abhishek, who though his daughter will become a successful Bollywood actress.

Amitabh and Abhishek celebrating the arrival of a baby girl in the family

“With Katrina ruling the roost, and actresses like Nargis Fakhri getting a break, Bollywood is getting increasingly trickier. They are no longer looking for Indian born beauty pageant winners. Just think about it,” Senior Bachchan advised his son, following which Abhishek asked his dad for help after he failed to get any innovative idea to solve this problem.

Amitabh Bachchan is reported to have sold a premium plan for child’s education and future to his son at this point of time. No one from the family or ICICI was willing to comment over the value of the plan, but sources say it covers all costs of professional grooming for the newly born girl, and secures her against any possible risk, even astrological.

“The girl’s future is secure with us,” an ICICI official claimed, “I just tuned in to India TV and they had made a kundli of Aishwarya’s baby assuming the time of birth to be the same when Abhishek had tweeted the news. They claim the girl could be maanglik and advice the parents to eat grass on all Mondays after taking bath with goat milk. But Abhishek-Aishwarya don’t need to worry or do anything of that sort. Hum hain na!”

With Thanks -  http://www.fakingnews.com/2011/11/amitabh-bachchan-sells-icici-child-future-plan-to-abhishek-bachchan/

Everything you need to know about Narendra Modi - Aakar Patel

Narendra Modi is positioning himself to be prime minister. What sort of leader will he make? We can tell by understanding him as a man. Look on this piece as his biography. Born 17 September 1950, Modi is 61. His resume says he has a master’s in political science.
He speaks a Gujarati purged of Persian words (like Advani’s Hindi, but better crafted). His Hindi is marked by his nasal accent, but is correct. His English is poor and he works on it.
Modi is called “NaMo” by his fans (the word also means “bow down before”). His father was Damodar, however his early opponents invented the middle initial “ka”, calling him NaKaMo (“useless”). That joke isn’t funny any more.
He radiates charisma and Gujaratis love him. Gujarati women are greatly attracted to him sexually, as women are towards all men of power.
Modi is the finest manager of media of any Indian leader. During one speech in Ahmedabad, he learnt a national channel, I think it was Aaj Tak, would broadcast him live at a particular time. He switched to Hindi mid-speech and then reverted to Gujarati when the 2-minute patch was over.
He takes his image very seriously. He is vain and terrified of being humiliated. When shoe-throwing began in the last election, he insisted on a fine mesh between the stage and his audience.

Orator: In his speeches, Modi speaks a Gujarati purged of Persian words. Amit Dave/Reuters

He is stylish, wearing perfectly cut half-sleevedkurtas. These are not inexpensive and are crafted for him by the Ahmedabad store JadeBlue. He has a problem with his weight because Ahmedabadi diet is rich, but neither drinks nor smokes and is vegetarian.

On his website (www.narendramodi.in), Modi uses these words to describe himself: “great dreamer”, “remarkable ability”, “realist”, “idealist”, “excellent organizational capability”, “rich insight into human psychology”, “sheer strength of character and courage”.
He is possessed with self-belief and utterly uninterested in what others say. He has over 360,000 followers on Twitter, but he follows nobody.
He is above caste.
Gujarat’s BJP vote bank is Patels + upper castes. As a ghanchi from the OBC, or Other Backward Classes, community of oil-pressers (teli) Modi has no caste base. Ghanchis get little respect in a state of merchants and my family will use the word “ghanchi” sneeringly.
He has united a very caste-minded society by first rallying it against Muslims/Pakistan/jihad/terrorism and then rousing their pride in their state. He has put to pasture one Patel rival (Keshubhai) and made another Patel, the clownish Pravin Togadia, irrelevant. He has neutralized Patel “unhappiness”. Four of his nine cabinet-ranked ministers are Patels.
Modi has brought to heel an unruly and factional Gujarat BJP by creating unity of command.
Modi has dismantled the Congress strategy, called KHAM: Kshatriya + Harijan + Adivasi + Muslim.
After Modi, Harijans and Adivasis are almost as likely to vote BJP because of the popular appeal of Hindutva and the great social work done by the Sangh in northern Gujarat and the Panchmahals.
He has excellent sources and usually has research done on those he is about to meet.
I first met him in 2002 when the Editors Guild sent a three-man team to assess if there was media prejudice against Muslims during the riots (of course there was).
In his Gandhinagar office Modi took me aside. He slipped his left hand into my right, interlocking our fingers, and began swinging it playfully in the manner of Indian men. “Saurabhbhai saffron, Aakarbhai red,” he said with a chuckle.
The reference was to my colleague, the editor of a Gujarati paper whom I got fired because he wrote what I thought was an appalling editorial justifying the riots.
He doesn’t share power. For years, Gujarat’s finance minister (Saurabh Patel) and home minister (Amit Shah) were denied cabinet rank.
I once met an IAS officer on a flight out of Ahmedabad and told him I had just met the CM. “You’re fortunate,” he said, “my minister hasn’t met him in six months.”
Modi does not hesitate to get rid of high-quality and dedicated civil servants if they cross him. Young and upright IPS officers like Rahul Sharma and Satish Verma who defied the Gujarati consensus to “go easy” on rioting Hindus have been fixed.
Sharma, who cleverly secured the damning cellphone records of Modi’s ministers during the riots, is being prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act. Verma is facing action on charges of negligence.
Modi is probably one of India’s three most disciplined leaders in terms of control over policy and work ethic. Those who are given time to meet him are guaranteed to be led into his office at precisely the appointed hour.
He is decisive, and persistent in his policies. The Panchamrut schemes he initiated 10 years ago are still the thrust of his vision for the state. Economist Shankar Acharya wrote in Business Standard (14 July) that under Modi, Gujarat’s agriculture grew at an astonishing 8%.
How?
In their book, High Growth Trajectory and Structural Changes in Gujarat Agriculture, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) professors Ravindra Dholakia and Samar Datta explained Gujarat’s agricultural success thus: “It is fully endogenous, systematically led by long-term vision and comprehensive strategy requiring solid commitment and dedication to the cause, political will to pursue market-oriented reforms of policies and institutions, interdepartmental and inter-ministerial coordination and cooperation, and a responsive and entrepreneurial farming community.”
Acharya wrote that, given this was not possible in our other states, “it seems closer to an ‘exogenous’ miracle”.
Meaning that it was influenced and created from the outside, by Modi. This is true.
He makes no concession to Muslims.
For four consecutive Lok Sabha and assembly elections he has given not a single ticket to Gujarati Muslims. That is 364 assembly and 52 Lok Sabha tickets handed out. Muslims are 9% of Gujarat’s population, but Modi has made them electorally irrelevant. He reminds them of that by not throwing a token ticket their way.
Gujaratis are used to leaders who compromise. Modi is another kind of Gujarati leader. Not inclusive and ideologically unbending. Gujaratis wrongly believe Patel was such a man and call Modi “Chhote Sardar” (I’m certain he seethes at chhote).
In his book Sardar Patel and Indian Muslims, Rafiq Zakaria wrote of how Articles 25 and 26, the right to convert Hindus and to set up Muslims-only institutions, were actually put in place by Vallabhbhai, his gift to Muslims. Gujaratis are horrified to be told this but Vallabhbhai Patel was no bigot.
Modi does not have a problem with minorities as such. He loves Parsis, whom he sees as patriots, and he is in turn popular with them. He was chief guest for their oldest fire temple’s 1,290th anniversary in Udvada earlier this year. One day I went to meet Modi with a friend from Surat, Aadil Bhoja. When I introduced him by first name to Modi, the chief minister, who was expecting only me, hesitated and said: “Aadil etle... (Aadil meaning...)?”
“Parsi,” said Aadil (Gujaratis always place each other by community and caste). Modi was immediately at ease, talking about how colourful Parsis were. His problem is Muslims.
During the Ayodhya movement, when Modi was in his late 30s, sociologistAshis Nandy interviewed him. In 2002, Nandy wrote this in Seminar: “It was a long, rambling interview, but it left me in no doubt that here was a classic, clinical case of a fascist. I never use the term ‘fascist’ as a term of abuse; to me it is a diagnostic category comprising not only one’s ideological posture but also the personality traits... He had the same mix of puritanical rigidity, narrowing of emotional life, denial and fear of his own passions combined with fantasies of violence—all set within the matrix of clear paranoid and obsessive personality traits.”
That such a man became not just a leader, but a popular one led Nandy to add: “I am afraid I cannot look at the future of the country with anything but great foreboding.”
In a nation that responds to emotion, Modi is one of our great orators. I would say that along with Balasaheb Thackeray and Lalu Prasad, he is one of our three best. All three men are hugely entertaining and original. About the US president, Modi said his name reminded him of a Gujarati child in pain screaming for its mother: “O ba! O ma!”
The late Chandrakant Bakshi, one of Gujarat’s most famous writers, told me over a drink that he trembled each time he heard Modi’s rallying cry: “Paanch karod Gujarati (50 million Gujaratis)”.
There is no whiff of corruption about Modi, and he isn’t interested in money in that sense.
He does not have much of a life or interests outside of his work. One night I was the last person on his list of people to meet for the day. As we wound up, I asked him what he would do now. “Go home to my mother, of course,” he said, surprised.
He has a wife, a villager, whom he discarded very early on. He does not respond to stories about her.
His elbow is sharp. Seven years or so ago, he upset the RSS because he was autocratic and dismissive of their advisers. Among them was a powerfulswayamsevak named Sanjay Joshi. It appeared Joshi had Modi in trouble.
Then Joshi, or someone looking exactly like him, was secretly videotaped bedding the young daughter of a family friend. These CDs were distributed anonymously to leaders at the meeting of the BJP national executive in Mumbai in 2005. The visuals made the front pages of Gujarati newspapers. Soon SMS jokes began where Joshi’s sorry sexual performance and orthodox underwear were skewered (“why did he even bother taking off his langot?”).
Modi has ruled unchallenged since. His economic success and national popularity has silenced the Sangh.
Modi has great patience. He has worn out the secularists. His insistence on economic performance has trumped their insistence on secularism. His understanding of middle-class Indians and what moves us is first-rate, better than any politician on the subcontinent.
He is street-smart and clever but not intellectual. He isn’t widely read, and the books he has written are by way of hagiography. His poetry is shockingly banal. Here he has escaped criticism because he writes only in Gujarati, but sample this translation:
“At sweet sixteen, melody of a cuckoo within
On whom showers romance, the flowers of spring?
Appearing poor, but rich within
From the heart of autumn, Rises the cooing of spring
Who’s getting wedded in woods?
Each tree is lit in festive moods!”
Personally, I am not enamoured of a man who thinks up such rubbish. However this is the sort of mush that Indians love and perhaps Modi has calibrated it. The man himself will be much harder, as we will learn.
Manmohan Singh gave Indians our best laws in half a century: Right to information, right to education, the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS), the nuclear deal and soon the right to food.
Unlike America, India’s parliamentary system conflates legislature with executive. It is fair to see Manmohan Singh as passing the first part of his job and failing the second.
In that sense Modi will be right for a people who have always required firm governance more than they have the freedom to write their laws.

With Thanks to Live Mint

http://www.livemint.com/2011/09/29212829/Everything-you-need-to-know-ab.html?h=A3

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They are back with BANG...

Hi friends,

After long time writing blog.. felt something excited to share. so I am here.. Like to talk about show on television which will be back with new season. and I am excited about it.

I am talking about show which started in 2003. and changed face of reality tv shows head to toe. I am talking about ROADIES. yes after completing 8 seasons. they are coming with 9th season. Now whenever talking about roadies. first person come in mind is Raghu. Raghu is guy who made this show, what it is today. I personally believe that format of this show, Specially interview portion, asks you a simple question. and that is "Be what you are".

In life we are always trying or pretending to be what we like most or what we amused about? but this concept or this show tells us that Life requires to be what you are? You can achieve anything and everything if once you are cleared what you are. It's about knowing yourself. I always believe that ordinary person can do extra ordinary things in extra ordinary environment.

At end of day, You have to achieve what you were thought impossible at one stage. Roadies shows people who come from different back ground, different culture and different ideology try to reach at one place by hard work, planning, back stabing. But that's life. We always feel life is unfair to us. and that's what I love about show. It's unfair. deal with it.

Love you Raghu, Rajiv and Ranvijay. HATS OFF...

Love,
Smit

Har ek boss Zaruri hota hai

‎​A tribute to the bosses!!! Chai k Liye jaise Toast hota hai, 
Waise har ek BOSS zaruri hota hai. 
Koi friday evening review par bulaye 
Koi saturday ko office bulaye

Ek teri idea ko apna bataye, Aur Ek tera target har month badhaye Koi nature se gentle, koi bura hota hai, Par har ek boss zaruri hota hai.

Ek ghadi ghadi reviewi kare par kabhi kabhi advice de 
Ek kabhi kabhi review kare aur ghadi ghadi advice de

Koi Gyan ka ghoomta phirta satellite, 
Koi din raat rakhe team ko tight; Koi welcomed hai, koi forced hota hai 
Par har ek boss zaruri hota hai 
Koi bossy boss, koi friendly boss 
Koi Data crazy excel boss. 
Moody boss, koi gloomy boss 
Early morning office aane wala Boss, Koi late night jaane wala Boss

Koi promote na kare aur appraisal me tarsaye 
Koi good suggestion ko bhi thukhraye 
Koi best friend aur, koi aloof hota hai Par har ek boss Zaruri hota hai ! 

Love,

Smit

પાદે ગુજરાત

વાંચે ગુજરાત અને વાવે ગુજરાત ના અતિ સુંદર અને સુસજ્જ પરિણામ આવ્યા બાદ ગુજરાત સરકાર એ  ગુજરાત ના આદરણીય અને લોક લાડીલા મુખ્ય મંત્રી ના નેજા હેઠળ ગુજરાત ને વધુ એક નવી સિદ્ધિ હસ્ત કરવાનો નિર્ધાર કર્યો છે. માનનીય નરેન્દ્રભાઈ મોદી સાહેબ એ  આજે વિધાન સભા માં જાહેરાત કરી કે પોતાના શરીર નો કચરો દુર કરવા અને પ્રદુષણ અટકાવવા માટે ગુજરાત એક સાથે પાદશે. આ રેકોર્ડ ને પણ ગુજરાત પોતાના નામે કરી વિશ્વ માં નવી ઉંચાઈ ને સ્પર્શ કરશે એવું એમને પોતાની જાહેરાત માં જણાવ્યું હતું.

"ગુજરાત આજે ભારત જ નહિ પણ વિશ્વ માં સીમા ચિન્હ રૂપ પ્રસિદ્ધિ પ્રાપ્ત કરી રહ્યું છે. ગુજરાત એ છેલ્લા દાયકા માં ખુબ જ પ્રગતિ કરી છે. આજે ગુજરાત એક નવી સિદ્ધિ સર કરવા જઈ રહ્યું છે. આપને આ ૧૬ august ના દિવસે સમગ્ર ગુજરાત એક સાથે પાદશે. અને આ પાદ ની ગુંજ સમગ્ર વિશ્વ માં પડશે.મને એ જણાવતા અત્યંત દુખ લાગે છે કે ગુજરાત સરકાર ના આ આધુનિક પગલા ને કેન્દ્ર સરકાર દ્વારા કોઈ પ્રોત્સાહન નથી અપાઈ રહ્યું. આજે ગુજરાત એક સાથે પાદી પોતાની તાકાત તેમજ ક્ષમતા નું પ્રદર્શન કરશે. મિત્રો, આ લોકો ને આપને બતાવી આપીશું કે ગુજરાતી ની પાદ માં પણ એના ઈરાદા ની મક્કમતા રહેલી છે. અને ગુજરાત એક સાથે પાદી અને કેન્દ્ર સરકાર ને ધ્રુજવાની ક્ષમતા રાખે છે " નરેન્દ્ર મોદી એ પોતાના ભાષણ માં આવું જણાવ્યું હતું.

આ વાત ને પ્રોત્સાહન આપતા ગુજરાત સરકાર ના પ્રવક્તા એ  જણાવ્યું હતું કે "વાંચે ગુજરાત અને વાવે ગુજરાત ની શાનદાર સિદ્ધિ પછી આપને માનનીય મુખ્યમંત્રી સાહેબ ના નેજા હેઠળ એક નવી સિદ્ધિ સર કરવા જઈ રહ્યા છીએ. મોદી સાહેબ ના નેજા હેઠળ આપને પાદે ગુજરાત કાર્યક્રમ કરવાના છીએ.  ૧૬ august થી માનનીય અન્ના હઝ્ઝારે જી પોતાનું ભ્રષ્ટચાર વિરોધી અંશન પર ઉતારવાના છે. આ અનશન ને  ટેકો આપવા માટે ગુજરાત ના મુખ્યમંત્રી સાહેબ ની આ પહેલ ને સમગ્ર ગુજરાત એ આવકારી છે. અને આ દિવસે ગુજરાત એક સાથે પાદી ને એ બતાવી દેશે કે ગુજરાત એ ભારત ની કેટલી મોટી તાકાત છે. માનનીય નરેન્દ્ર મોદી સાહેબ પણ આ દિવસે ગાંધીનગર માં સમગ્ર મંત્રી મંડળ સાથે આ કાર્યક્રમ માં ભાગ લેવાના છે. અને ત્યાર બાદ દરેક તાલુકા માં પણ આ પ્રકાર ના આયોજનો કરવાની નેમ ધરાવે છે. માનનીય મોદી સાહેબ કે જેમને બધું જ રાજ્ય ના વિકાસ માટે સમર્પિત કરેલું છે તેઓ માટે આ એક વિકાસ ની ઝંખના માં મોટું અને ઉત્કૃષ્ટ કદમ છે."

બીજી તરફ આ પગલા ને સખત રીતે વખોડતા અર્જુનસિંહ એ જણાવ્યું હતું કે મોદી નું સતા પર નું વળગણ અને ગુજરાત વિરોધી નીતિ તેમનો તેમજ ગુજરાત ને ખુબ પરેશાન કરશે. તેમણે વધુ માં જણાવ્યું હતું કે આ બધું અદાની જૂથ ના ઈશારા પર થઇ રહ્યું છે. અને આ ગુજરાત સરકાર એ માત્ર ઉદ્યોગ ગૃહ માટે જ કામ કરી રહી છે. આ સરકારે નીતિમતા ના ધોરણે રાજીનામુ આપી દેવું જોઈએ. 

ગુજરાત સરકાર એ દરેક વિભાગ ને સુચના આપી અને ૧૬ august માટે સમગ્ર તૈયારી કરી તેમજ સમગ્ર ઘટના નું ફોટો અને વીડિઓ રેકોર્ડ કરવાની સુચના આપી છે. માનનીય મુખ્ય મંત્રી આ પ્રકાર ના પ્રોગ્રામ ને પોતાના વિરોધ નો એક ભાગ બતાવે છે ત્યારે વિપક્ષ આખી ઘટના ને publicity stunt  ઘણાવી  અને સહાનુભુતિ ભેગી કરવાનો એક નિર્મમ પ્રકાર બતાવે છે. 

Happy Birthday to Kishorda....

On the birthday of great Kishorda... Wordings of his very very beautiful gujrati song.. He sung this song in "Santu Rangili" in 1976. Still when we here ur voice kishorda.. Just feel blessed to be in this world...

લોકો સૌ કહે છે કે મુંબઈમાં છે બહુ કમાણી
પણ મુંબઈની કમાણી મુંબઈમાં સમાણી
જેવું ના સૂકાયે મુંબઈના દરિયાનું પાણી
એવી ના સૂકાયે કોઈ દી મુંબઈની જવાની
અરે મુંબઈની કમાણી મુંબઈમાં સમાણી

આ ચોપાટી…. દેખાણી? હા
આ તાજમહેલ હોટલ…. દેખાણી? હા હા
અને મુંબઈની શેઠાણી…દેખાણી? દેખાણી…

પાન પીળું પણ પાવડર ચોળી રાખે ઉંમર છાની
એ મુંબઈની કમાણી મુંબઈમાં સમાણી

એક નંબરના ઓછા ને બે નંબરના ઝાઝાં
ખિસ્સાં ખાલી ભપકા ભારી જાણે આલમભરના રાજા
અહીં કોમ-કોમનું થાય કચુંબર જુદી જુદી વાણી
એ મુંબઈની કમાણી મુંબઈમાં સમાણી

અહીં બાર ફુટની ઓરડીવાળા મોટા મોટા માળા
અહીં શેઠ કરતાં થઈ સવાયા ફરે શેઠના સાળા
આ ટોળાંમાં કંઈ સમજ પડે નહિ કોણ પુરુષ કોણ બાળા
અહીં જુવાનના વાળ ધોળા ને ઘરડાંના વાળ કાળા

સાંજ પડે સૌ ભેળપૂરીની કરતાં રોજ ઉજાણી
એ મુંબઈની કમાણી મુંબઈમાં સમાણી

લોકો સૌ કહે છે કે મુંબઈમાં છે બહુ કમાણી
પણ મુંબઈની કમાણી મુંબઈમાં સમાણી

અહીં મહાલક્ષ્મીની રેસ….
-ભગાવ બડેમિયાં
ને મહાલક્ષ્મી છે માતા
-હે મા તારી જય હો !!!

અહીં મહાલક્ષ્મીની રેસ ને મહાલક્ષ્મી છે માતા
અહીં લાખો લોકો હારે ને લાખો લોક કમાતા
એક મિનિટમાં બસ્સો-પાંચસો થઈ જાતા ધૂળધાણી
એ મુંબઈની કમાણી મુંબઈમાં સમાણી

અહીં રવિવાર છે રંગીલો એને સૌ કહેતા સન્ડે
અહીં રસ્તા વચ્ચે ચાલે એને પોલીસ મારે ડંડે
કોઈ સજ્જન છે કરમરકર ને કોઈ સજ્જન લોખંડે
નાના-મોટા સૌએ દોડે પોત પોતાને ધંધે

અહીં રહેવું હોય તો ઈકડમ-તિકડમ ભાષા લેવી જાણી
એ મુંબઈની કમાણી મુંબઈમાં સમાણી

લોકો સૌ કહે છે કે મુંબઈમાં છે બહુ કમાણી
પણ મુંબઈની કમાણી મુંબઈમાં સમાણી
પણ મુંબઈની કમાણી મુંબઈમાં સમાણી

Happy Birthday to Kishor Da.....

Sarfaroshi ki Tammanna

One of my most fav. movie gulal has really superb version of  "Sarafaroshi ki tamnna" and having such superb lines.. Love to share with u...

Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil me hai
Dekhna hai zor kitna bazu-e-kaatil me hai
Waqt aane pe bataadenge tujhe e aasmaan
Hum abhi se kya batayen kya hamare dil me hai

Oh re Bismil kaash aate aaj tum Hindustaan
Dekhte ki mulk saara kya tashan, kya thrill mein hai
Aaj ka launda yeh kehta hum to bismil thak gaye
Apni aazaadi to bhaiya laundiya ke til mein hai.

Aaj ke jalson me Bismil ek gunga gaa raha.
Aur behron ka wo rela naachta mehfil mein hai
Haath ki khadi banaane ka zamaana lag gaya
Aaj to chaddi bhi silti englison ki mill mein hai

Sarfaroshi ki tamanna ab hamare dil me hai…
….kya batayen kya hamare dil me hai

 

Love,

Smit

9 Months Later

Jack decided to go skiing with his buddy, Bob. So they loaded up Jack's minivan and headed north.

After driving for a few hours, t

hey got caught in a terrible 

blizzard. So they pulled into a 

nearby farm and asked the 

attractive lady who answered 

the door if they could spend the 

night.

'I realize it's terrible weather out 

there and I have this huge house 

all to myself, but I'm recently 

widowed,' she explained. 'I'm 

afraid the neighbors will talk if I 

let you stay in my house.'

'Don't worry,' Jack said. 'We'll be happy to sleep in the barn. And if the weather breaks, we'll be gone at first light.' The lady agreed, and the two men found their way to the barn and settled in for the night.

Come morning, the weather 

had cleared, and they got on 

their way.

They enjoyed a great weekend of skiing.

But about nine months later, Jack got an unexpected letter from an attorney. It took him a few minutes to figure it out, but he finally determined that it was from the attorney of that attractive widow he had met on the ski weekend.

He dropped in on his friend Bob and asked, 'Bob, do you 

remember that good-looking

 widow from the farm we 

stayed at on our ski holiday 

up north about 9 months 

ago?'

'Yes, I do.' Said Bob .

'Did you, er, happen to get up in the middle of the night, go up to the house and pay her a visit?'

'Well, um, yes!,' Bob said, a little embarrassed about being found out,'I have to admit that I did.'

'And did you happen to give her my name instead of telling her your name?'

Bob's face turned beet red and he said,

'Yeah, look, I'm sorry, buddy. I'm afraid I did.' 'Why do you ask?'

'She just died and left me everything.' 
(And you thought the ending 

would be different, didn't 

you?... you know you 

smiled... now keep that smile 

for the rest of the day!)

Love,

Smit